The interlopers
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Introducing the Story
Literary Focus: Omniscient Narrator
Literary Focus: Surprise Endings
Reading Skills: Monitoring Your Reading
The Interlopersby Saki
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The Interlopersby Saki
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The InterlopersIntroducing the Story
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Anton Chekhov
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The InterlopersIntroducing the Story
Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym are sworn enemies. What happens when these two armed enemies come face to face in the woods on a winter night?
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The InterlopersLiterary Focus: Omniscient Point of View
An omniscient narrator
• can reveal characters’ thoughts and actions
• can zoom from place to place
• may tell all or save information until the end
• is not a character in the story
• knows everything about all the characters in the story
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The InterlopersLiterary Focus: Surprise Endings
A surprise ending resolves a story’s conflict in a totally unexpected way.
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• The ending, while surprising, is still logical.
• The unexpected ending may make you rethink the story.
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The InterlopersReading Skills: Monitoring Your Reading
When you encounter a difficult sentence or passage, try one of these strategies.
• Use context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words. Context clues may
• give the word’s definition
• restate the word’s meaning in a different way
• provide an example
• show comparison or contrast
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• Look for the subject and the verb.
• Stop to rephrase or summarize.
• Break long sentences into simpler ones.
• Finally, take time to re-read.
When you encounter a difficult sentence or passage try one of these strategies.
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The InterlopersReading Skills: Monitoring Your Reading